Jared Smith of WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind) just came out with Part 1 of an article series talking about Ajax and its accessibility.
Part one is basically an overview, but it does contain links to other resources. http://webaim.org/techniques/ajax/ I'm still out on it, especially since as he points out, the WCAG 1.0 does require that pages function correctly without Javascript. Sandra Clark -----Original Message----- From: James Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 8:42 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: I don't know if this is even possible Rubbish. I tested all of my stuff in FF pre 1.5 and IE 6, months ago - all of the new links I was writing to the screen (via AJAX) read out perfectly in all 3 screen readers I tested. The links were not in a form. On 1/11/06, Sandra Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is that up until Firefox 1.5 dHTML is not totally > accessible by screen readers. Most screen readers can handle some > javascript, but not any screen changes after a body onload(). Thus any > dHTML changes to the screen will not be noticeable to screen readers. > If a user is in a forms mode, it might work in some screen readers, > but its not across the board. And if you aren't talking about a form, > but changing the screen, thats where the problems come in. > > Ajax is not inherently inaccessible, its the way of presenting the > information (dHTML and Javascript changes to the client screen) that > are problematic. > > FireFox 1.5 has incorporated a newer version of Javascript (think Web > 2.0) which when combined with Window-eyes actually created accessible javascript. > I saw a demo by IBM at the CSUN accessibility conference last March. > Unfortunately most disabled users are using a combination of IE and > Jaws, neither of which supports it. -- CFAJAX docs and other useful articles: http://jr-holmes.coldfusionjournal.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:229336 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
